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Fractal Friday: Another Fractal Pizza

Here’s a pizza modeled after a variant of the Koch snowflake, and it’s perhaps a bit more aesthetically appealing than the previously posted pie.  Sadly, an examination of the pepperoni distribution (not to mention the ever-so-cute tiny pepperoni themselves) will reveal that this is a ‘Shop job, so it seems that the three-recursion/edibility barrier has not yet been broken.  Even were it to be real, you’ll notice that the fourth and fifth levels are incomplete, so we’d have to count it out in any case. [Edit: miscounted due to tiny WordPress editing window; there are four legitimate (if PhotoShopped) fully complete levels.)

(Via proofmathisbeautiful.)

Fractal Pizza

Is three the magic number of iterations for fractal foodstuffs?  While perhaps slightly less elegant than the Sierpiński cookies, this recursively-constructed pizza makes a valiant effort:

Fractal Pizza

The bottom layer is a conventional pizza crust topped with sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives and smaller pizzas.  These smaller pizzas use English muffins as crusts, a similar array of toppings, and smaller pizzas built on corn chips.  While I admire the creators’ stated desire to achieve a 10-iteration pizza, I think they will have some serious logistical challenges making it past five or six.